Bug#864313: ITP: ipcalcng -- Tool to assist in network address calculations for IPv4 and IPv6
On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 09:04:09PM +0200, Muri Nicanor wrote:
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> * Package name : ipcalcng
> * Url : https://github.com/nmav/ipcalc
> * Licenses : BSD-3-Clause,GPL-2
> Programming Lang : C
> Section : net
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> I'm an intense user of ipcalc, which is a really useful tool, but ipcalc
> does not do IPv6 addresses. I've stumbled over the ipcalc by Nikos
> Mavrogiannopoulos when looking for a version that is IPv6 capable. I'm
> aware of the naming collision, thats why i propose to call the package
> (and the binary) ipcalng. I'm not sure yet if that name is the right
> solution, in particular because in fedora the perl ipcalc version was
> renamed to ipcalculator and this one is now called ipcalc [0]. This
> could lead to a lot of confusion and i would have to maintain that
> change forever. If there are better solutions please let me know.
Would the Debian maintainer of ipcalc be willing
to make the same change in naming? ( cc-ed )
Groeten
Geert Stappers
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/ipcalculator
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